The Loose Women panellist was rushed to hospital after falling ill in the house

She was crowned the winner of Celebrity Big Brother last week, but Coleen Nolan has confessed her triumph might not have been after she spent the day before her win in hospital.

The 51-year-old revealed on today’s Loose Women that she was forced into an ambulance and rushed to hospital after show bosses suspected she was suffering from a heart attack after waking up with chest pains.

‘That was really scary, last Thursday I woke up with terrible, terrible chest pains. I thought it was heartburn, and they were really bad, I was shaking and couldn’t wake up,’ she said.

‘They called me to the diary room and brought in a paramedic, he did two ECGs and they were fine. “Was I scared?” Not at this point.

‘I’d been smoking a lot, everything was excessive and also the stress of the house, they said no sleep in the day but I could because I was ill so I got on the couch and they called me to the Diary Room and said a doctor has been on and they’re sending an ambulance for you.’

But Coleen confessed she was convinced she was being secretly evicted after witnessing all the ‘cruel’ twists on the Channel 5 show.

‘At this stage, I didn’t trust Big Brother and thought they were evicting me because they’d been so cruel.

‘They said: “No, we can’t overrule the doctor”. I said: “Look its fine, they gave me paracetamol and the pain has gone a bit”.

After a warning from Big Brother that heart attacks can present differently in women and men, she revealed she was sent off to hospital with a ‘blanket over my head because no one was allowed to see me.’